Staff Profile
Professor Iain Munro
Prof of Leadership & Org Change
- Email: iain.munro@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1653
- Address: Newcastle University Business School
Room 5.05,
5 Barrack Rd,
Newcastle upon
Tyne NE1 4SE
Iain is Professor of Leadership and Organization at Newcastle Business School. He has previously worked at the universities of Warwick (1994-2000), St Andrews (2000-2009), and Innsbruck (2009-2013). He has diverse research interests and has published articles in Organization Studies, Human Relations, Organization, the Journal of the Operational Research Society and the Journal of Business Ethics. He has written a monograph on "Information Warfare in Business: Strategies of Control and Resistance".
Editorial Positions:
- Editorial board member of Human Relations
- Editorial board member of Organization Studies.
- Associate Editor of Organization
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I am engaged in the following areas of research:
* ‘Whistleblowing, Human Rights and the Media’, speakers including John Kiriakou (CIA whistleblower), Craig Murray (UK Foreign Office whistleblower), Robert Tibbo (Edward Snowden’s lawyer) and Andrew Fowler (Investigative Journalist). See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEiwXAys2wY
* ‘Whistleblowing, Transparency and Activism’, speakers including Katharine Gun (GCHQ whistleblower), Mark Curtis (National Security historian), Iain Munro, and Professor Kate Kenny. See https://www.whistleblowingimpact.org/10-january-2020-videos-recordings-of-whistleblowing-transparency-and-activism-programme-now-available/
BUS3054 Strategy, Organizations & Society
BUS3347 Strategy, Organizations & Society (Study Abroad Sem 1)
BUS3017 Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics
BUS3062 Corporate Communications and Social Media
NBS8556 Core Readings in Management and Business Studies
- de Vaujany F, Leclercq-Vandelannoitte A, Munro I, Yeah N, Holt R. Control and Surveillance in Work Practice: Cultivating Paradox in ‘New’ Modes of Organizing. Organization Studies 2021, 42(5), 675–695.
- Trittin-Ulbrich H, Scherer AG, Munro I, Whelan G. Exploring the dark and unexpected sides of digitalization: Towards a critical agenda. Organization 2021, 28(1), 8-25.
- Rhodes C, Munro I, Thanem T, Pullen A. Dissensus! Radical Democracy and Business Ethics. Journal of Business Ethics 2020, 164, 627-632.
- Munro I. An Interview with Chelsea Manning’s Lawyer: Nancy Hollander on Human Rights and the Protection of Whistleblowers. . Organization 2019, 26(2), 276-290.
- Pina e Cunha M, Rego A, Munro I. Dogs in Organizations. Human Relations 2019, 72(4), 778-800.
- Munro I, MacKay B. Information War. In: Dr. Chris Rojek, ed. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition. John Wiley, 2019. In Preparation.
- Munro I. An interview with Snowden’s lawyer Robert Tibbo on whistleblowing, mass surveillance and human rights activism. Organization 2018, 25(1), 106-122.
- Munro I, Thanem T. Deleuze and the Deterritorialization of Strategy. Critical Perspectives in Accounting 2018, 53, 69-78.
- Wegerer P, Munro I. Ethics of Ambivalence in Corporate Branding. Organization 2018, 25(6), 695-709.
- Munro I, Thanem T. The Ethics of Affective Leadership: Organizing Good Encounters Without Leaders. Business Ethics Quarterly 2018, 28(1), 51-69.
- Munro I. Whistleblowing and the politics of truth: mobilizing 'truth games' in the WikiLeaks case. Human Relations 2017, 70(5), 519-543.
- Labatut J, Munro I, Desmond J. Animals and organizations. Organization 2016, 23(3), 315-329.
- Clegg S, PinaeCunha M, Munro I, Rego A, OomdeSousa M. Kafkaesque Power & Bureaucracy. Journal of Political Power 2016, 9(2), 157-181.
- Munro I. Organizational resistance as a vector of deterritorialization: The case of WikiLeaks and secrecy havens. Organization 2016, 23(4), 567-587.
- Huber C, Munro I. "Moral Distance" in Organizations: An Inquiry into Ethical Violence in the Works of Kafka. Journal of Business Ethics 2014, 124(2), 259-269.
- Munro I. Organizational Ethics and Foucault's 'Art of Living': Lessons from Social Movement Organizations. Organization Studies 2014, 35(8), 1127-1148.
- Munro I, Jordan S. 'Living Space' at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Spatial tactics and the politics of smooth space. Human Relations 2013, 66(11), 1497-1525.
- Maréchal G, Linstead S, Munro I. The Territorial Organization: History, Divergence and Possibilities. Culture and Organization 2013, 19(3), 185-208.
- MacKay B, Munro I. Information Warfare and New Organizational Landscapes: An Inquiry into the ExxonMobil–Greenpeace Dispute over Climate Change. Organization Studies 2012, 33(11), 1507-1536.
- Munro I, Huber C. Kafka's mythology: Organization, bureaucracy and the limits of sensemaking. Human Relations 2012, 65(4), 523-543.
- Weiskopf R, Munro I. Management of Human Capital: Discipline, Security and Controlled Circulation in HRM. Organization 2012, 19(6), 685-702.
- Munro I. The Management of Circulations: Biopolitical Variations After Foucault. International Journal of Management Reviews 2012, 14(3), 345-362.
- Munro I. Defending the Network Organization: An Analysis of Information Warfare with Reference to Heidegger. Organization 2010, 17(2), 199-222.
- Randall J, Munro I. Foucault's care of the self: A case from mental health work. Organization Studies 2010, 31(11), 1485-1504.
- Randall J, Munro I. Institutional Logics and Contradictions: competing and collaborating logics in a forum of medical and voluntary practitioners. Journal of Change Management 2010, 10(1), 23-39.
- Munro I. Nomadic Strategies in the Network Society: From Lawrence of Arabia to Linux. Scandinavian Journal of Management 2010, 26(2), 215-223.
- Munro I, Randall J. 'I don't know what I'm doing. How about you?': Discourse and identity in practitioners dealing with the survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Organization 2007, 14(6), 887-907.
- Munro I. Information Warfare in Business: Strategies of Control and Resistance. London: Routledge, 2005.
- Dibben M, Munro I. Applying Process Thought in Organization Studies. Process Studies 2003, 32(2), 183-195.
- Munro I, Mingers J. The Use of Multimethodology in Practice ‑ Results of a Survey of Practitioners. Journal of the Operational Research Society 2002, 53(4), 369-378.
- Ballantine J, Levy M, Martin A, Munro I, Powel P. An Ethical Perspective on Information Systems Evaluation. International Journal of Agile Management Systems 2000, 2(3), 233-242.
- Munro I. Non‑Disciplinary Power and the Network Society. Organization 2000, 7(4), 679-695.
- Munro I. Man Machine Systems: People and Technology in OR. Systems Practice and Action Research 1999, 12, 513-532.
- Munro I. An exploration of three emancipatory themes within OR and systems thinking. Journal of the Operational Research Society 1997, 48(6), 576-584.
- Ballantine J, Bonner M, Levy M, Martin A, Munro I, Powel P. The 3D Model of Information Systems Success: the Search for the Dependent Variable Continues. Information Resources Management Journal 1996, 9(4), 5-14.